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B-420045,B-420045.2 Nov 04, 2021 1 (2021-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaomke0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE G 100 A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: W.W. Grainger, Inc. File: B-420045; B-420045.2 Date: November 4, 2021 Jonathan S. Aronie, Esq., Katie A. Calogero, Esq., and Daniel J. Alvarado, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester. Michael D. McGill, Esq., and Thomas A. Pettit, Esq., Arnold & Porter LLP, for MSC Industrical Direct Co., Inc., the intervenor. Nathan C. Guerrero, Esq., and Nathan Bangsil, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Uri R. Yoo, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency failed to consider awardee's past performance information in its evaluation under the technical approach and corporate experience factors is denied where the solicitation did not require the agency to consider such information. 2. Protest alleging that the agency engaged in disparate treatment and evaluated quotations unequally by failing to assess strengths equally for similar aspects of the vendors' quotations are denied, where the agency assessed strengths to similar aspects of the protester's quotation and difference in the evaluation narratives resulted from differences between the quotations. 3. Protest challenging the agency's source selection decision is denied where the record reflects that the source selection authority reasonably found the quotations of the awardee and the protester to be technically equal and selected the lower-priced quotation for award. DECISION W.W. Grainger, Inc., of Lake Forest, Illinois, protests the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with the contractor team led by MSC Industrial Direct Company, Inc., of Davidson, North Carolina, under request for quotations (RFQ) No. 47QSCC-20-Q-5015, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Federal Acquisition Service, to provide 4th Party Logistics (4PL) supplies and services for the United States Marine Corps. The protester asserts that the agency unreasonably

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